Garrett Hardin Quotes

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Everything is a reaction.

I always seem to be reading several books at once.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Everything...affects everything

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.